Mahindra Morar has been working in the IT sector from 1997, developing Windows and website enterprise applications. In 2009, he has been focusing primarily on integrating systems as a principle integration consultant.
Having come from an electronics engineering background, he is able to use this knowledge to design solutions that integrate between wetware, software and hardware. He has worked in many industries, including manufacturing, financial institutions, insurance, retail/wholesale and power utilities.
His interests are exploring new technologies and deciding how to use them in the integration world.
You can view Mahindra’s blog at https://connectedcircuits.wordpress.com.
This is Mahindra’s second book he has co-authored; the first book was called SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server, and was published in 2015.
I would like to thank my co-authors, Abhishek, James, Martin, Gautam, and Ashish, who also dedicated their time in writing this book. Without them this book would not have created.The last 9 months writing this book has been a great learning experience; I now truly appreciate the hard work and dedication authors endure. I take my hat off to you all. For the readers of this book, I hope you find it interesting and beneficial to your career in IT.Finally, I would like to thank the three precious people in my life: Vanita, my lovely wife, and my two joyful boys, Ameesh and Jayan, who gave me the time to co-author this book.
Abhishek Kumar is working as Integration Consultant with Datacom New Zealand and has more than 8 years of experience in the fields of designing, building, and implementing integration solution.
He is a Microsoft Azure MVP and worked with multiple clients worldwide on modern integration strategies and solutions. He started his career in India as a BizTalk Consultant with Tata Consultancy Services before taking up consultant roles at Cognizant Services and Robert Bosch GmbH.
Abhishek has published multiple articles on modern integration strategy on the Web and the Microsoft TechNet wiki. His areas of interest include technologies such as Logic Apps, API Apps, Azure Functions, Cognitive Services, PowerBI, and Microsoft BizTalk Server.
His Twitter username is @Abhishekcskumar.
I would like to thank my co-authors, Mahindra, James, Martin, Gautam, and Ashish, who also dedicated their time and effort in writing this book. It has been a fabulous 9 months of work by all of us as a team. Thanks to our exceptional technical reviewers, Jeff Hollan, Bill Chesnut, Riaan Gouws, Glenn Colpaert, and Howard S. Edidin for their efforts in reviewing each chapter and providing valuable insights for the authors. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Datacom and my manager, Brett Atkins, for their guidance and support throughout our write-up journey.
Martin Abbott is a Microsoft Azure MVP living in Perth, Western Australia. He started his career developing subroutines for commercial computational fluid dynamics software, eventually moving on to more mainstream development and systems integration.
He has been working with BizTalk Server since the early days of the product, has spent a lot of time with WCF, but more recently has moved in to providing his customers with integration solutions spanning both on-premises and cloud workloads.
Most recently, his interests and work have led him to the Internet of Things, where he has been actively involved in the development of products and solutions for customers across a range of industries.
Martin is a regular speaker, runs the Perth MS Cloud Computing User Group, and is a member of the admin teams that organize Global Azure Bootcamp and Global Integration Bootcamp.
His blog can be found at: http://martinabbott.com, and his Twitter username is @martinabbott.
I would first like to thank my co-authors, James, Abhishek, Mahindra, Gautam, and Ashish, for their support and tireless effort during the development of this book. It has been a pleasure to work with you all and I look forward to our next collaboration. We managed to secure some great reviewers for the book, and I would like to thank them for their dedication to making sure this book hits every mark, and for providing great constructive feedback. Thank you to you, the reader of this book. You are the reason we do this, and having you thumb through the pages, either physically or electronically, makes this all worthwhile. Finally, no acknowledgement would be complete without me thanking the most important people in my life. I want to thank my wife, Leigh, and my three wonderful sons, Joel, Noah, and Aaron, for their support and the sacrifices they have made over many weekends and evenings as this book has taken shape. I love you all and I could not have done it without you.
Gyanendra Kumar Gautam is a BizTalk consultant, specialized in integration solutions across enterprise and cloud with Microsoft’s suite of tools and services. He is currently working with Synegrate as Sr. Cloud Integration Architect in the San Francisco Bay Area, helping customers to hook their stuff together within their enterprise by providing unified integration solutions, both on-premise and on the cloud.
Gautam began his career in 2005 at a start-up consulting firm in Bangalore, India. Since this startup company was primarily focused on the healthcare industry, he worked on multiple projects to develop healthcare software such as Practice Management System (PMS), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), and a few HL7 integrations. He also worked for a global IT consulting firm and a global mutual fund company, which gave him exposure to SOA/BPM technologies.
Prior to Synegrate, Gautam was with Microsoft as a PFE (Premier Field Engineer). In this role he was responsible for ensuring the success of enterprise integration solution using Microsoft BizTalk Server within customers' IT operations by providing deep technical skills for proactive and reactive delivery that involved technically complex or politically sensitive situations in large, enterprise-scale environments.
Gautam holds certifications in developing Microsoft Azure Solution and Microsoft BizTalk Server (MSTS). He also maintains a blog as learning web-log from his day-to-day work experience about enterprise integration with BizTalk Server and Azure Cloud Platform at: http://gautambiztalkblog.com/.
I would like to thank my co-authors, Abhishek, Mahindra, James, Martin, and Ashish, for all the hard work they did on their chapters, as well as for helping me out with the reviewing process of my chapters. I also want to thank my exceptional technical reviewers, Riaan Gouws, Glenn Colpaert, Howard S. Edidin, and Bill Chesnut. They made significant contributions in their role as technical reviewers. This book is of a higher caliber as a result of their insight, wisdom, and real-world experience. I would also like to thank my mentor, John Sonmez, for inspiring and guiding me to pursue my goals with hard work and dedication. Most of all, I would like to thank my lovely wife, Shilpa, for being so patient with me and understanding me while I was working on this book. I couldn't have gotten this task done without her support. Finally, thank you, dear readers, for reading this book. It makes all the effort worthwhile.
James Corbould has been working in the IT sector since 2003, developing and supporting applications in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Since 2010, James has been working in the software integration field, designing and building integration solutions using Microsoft technologies such as BizTalk, SQL Server, WCF, .NET, and now Azure, for a wide range of different customers. Recently, he has been working in the health insurance sector and in the building supplies sector.
Living and working in Auckland, New Zealand, James currently works for Datacom Systems as a consultant and team lead.
James seeks to contribute to the community through his blog (https://jamescorbould.wordpress.com) and is a technical reviewer for a couple of publications: The A-Y of running BizTalk Server in Microsoft Azure and BizTalk Server Extensibility, both available from the BizTalk360 website. This is James’ first foray as an author.
You can follow him via his Twitter username: @jamescorbould.
I would like to thank my fellow co-authors, Abhishek, Mahindra, Martin, Gautam, and Ashish, for their commitment to this project, through all the challenges and good times. It was a pleasure to work with you all and to make new friends. Many thanks too to our reviewers and the excellent feedback and comments that we received. Thanks also to my employer, Datacom, to my colleagues and managers, for the mentorship, assistance, opportunities, and the trust placed in me over the years. Last, and by no means least, to my beautiful wife, Bronwyn, and my two wonderful boys, Ben and Lachlan, for their support and encouragement while writing this book. I would also like to thank my parents, Nigel and Linda, for such wonderful support over the years. I hope that all readers find something useful in this book, as an introduction to the brave new world of integration using the Azure platform.
Ashish Bhambhani is an Integration Sr. Premier Field Engineer working for Microsoft. He lives in the Seattle region. He has been working in the integration space for more than a decade. In his current role he helps Microsoft’s enterprise customers by architecting, designing, building, and maintaining their integration solutions. He has worked with some of the world’s biggest customers for Microsoft in the integration space. Recently, he has been able to roll out Azure technologies enterprise-wide for his clients and replace their legacy solutions. He is a content creator and master trainer for some of a Microsoft’s training that is delivered to clients worldwide. Additionally, he was part of the team that wrote the BizTalk performance whitepaper for msdn.com.
I would like to thank my co-authors on the book (Abhishek, Mahindra, James, Martin, and Gautam) for putting in their time and effort into getting quality content created. Also, I would like to thank my family, especially my wife, Shruti, and my sons, Ekam and Meir, for inspiring me to do this and supporting along the way. Lastly, I would also thank my employer and my manager, Mark Edwards, for enabling me to write my parts for the book.